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January 4, 2007, Thursday

Today is the start of the Winter Regional of the Greater New York Bridge Association, which takes place in the Roosevelt Hotel, at Madison Avenue and 45th Street, and runs through Friday. (Full details are available at www.gnyba.org.) The...

December 26, 2005, Monday

Ask the cognoscenti to name the person who has best represented the game in every phase -- player, writer, teacher, editor, lawmaker, administrator, commentator and theorist -- and there would be a unanimous choice. Edgar Kaplan, who died in 1997,...

August 28, 2004, Saturday

The greatest figure in New York bridge history is Edgar Kaplan, a player, writer, editor, teacher, commentator and lawmaker who died in 1997. The Greater New York Bridge Association has named the last tournament of the year for him, and it will be...

December 24, 2001, Monday

The December tournament of the Greater New York Bridge Association is now named for Edgar Kaplan, a great figure in the world of bridge who died last year. It begins today at the Crowne Plaza Hotel, Broadway at 49th Street in Manhattan, with the...

December 26, 1998, Saturday

In the last five years, New York has lost four giants of the game: Jim Becker, Victor Mitchell, Edgar Kaplan and Judy Tucker. A Giants Game honoring all four was played Sunday night at Honors Club in Manhattan. It raised over $8,000 for the...

November 12, 1998, Thursday

The Greater New York Bridge Association has named its Winter Regional tournament after Edgar Kaplan, whose death in September was a loss to the game at every level. The tournament begins tomorrow at the Crowne Plaza Manhattan, 1605 Broadway, at 49th...

December 25, 1997, Thursday

Edgar Kaplan, who died in September, was an extraordinary man who did more for bridge in every way than anyone else in the game's history: player, teacher, writer, editor, system-maker, administrator, commentator and lawmaker. That was the consensus...

November 10, 1997, Monday

This year the world of bridge has lost two of its leading citizens: Edgar Kaplan, who died last month, and Alfred Sheinwold, who died in March. Together, with their Kaplan-Sheinwold system, they introduced the bridge public to many ideas that have...

October 20, 1997, Monday

Edgar Kaplan, one of the greatest figures in the world of bridge, died on Sunday at the Mount Sinai Medical Center in Manhattan. He was 72. He had suffered from cancer for several years, his sister-in-law, Sylvia Kaplan, said.